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News BMC Software and CA have both teamed up with Salesforce.com to produce applications that are built and run on the latter's Force.com platform. The tie-ups were announced at... [20 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Adoption rates of virtualisation have yet to match the hype surrounding it, here Andrew Donoghue hears from businesses who've already taken the plunge. Despite vendors touting the numerous benefits that virtualisation can bestow on... [20 Nov 2009]
Google sheds light on netbook plans for Chrome OS
News For more details on the Chrome OS, see Google has its own plan for netbooks on CNET News.com. Google has taken the wraps off its Chrome OS for the first time. At an event held at its Mountain View HQ on Thursday, Google... [20 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News How does a business pay less for its IT services when it's already getting them at rock bottom prices? It takes a long hard look at whether it needs to be gobbling up so many services in the first place. [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo Andrew Gilbert, Qualcomm's executive VP, told silicon.com: "This notion of being able to combine the form factor of a netbook with the flexibility of experience of a smartphone seems to resonate with... [20 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up In fact - as an aside - even Whitehall is putting IT on a diet, with the government's green IT champion, Chris Chant telling silicon.com the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves on a... [20 Nov 2009]
Arrested: Suspected Zeus Trojan distributors
News A spokesman for the Met Police told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Thursday that the man and woman were arrested on 3 November, but have been released on bail and not yet been formally charged. The... [20 Nov 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: BlackBerry Storm 2
Photo Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's sister site CNET.co.uk, the home of technology reviews. For more gadget reviews see... [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will bring the functionality of consumer technologies such as Facebook and Twitter to the business world. Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce... [19 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Photo credit: sander.duivestein via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons Licence). I think you will see the software companies face big new competitors, such as Salesforce.com, these are the... [19 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to Tim Ferguson about the state of open source, Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems and the value of... [19 Nov 2009]
Photos: Apple's latest Big Apple store
Photo Here's a look inside Apple's latest Manhattan store in New York US. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Except for the marble supporting walls, it's mostly glass, with an all-glass roof. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Apple's iconic logo on the glass. [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010: Beta launched
News Office 2010 beta can be downloaded from silicon.com sister site CNET download.com. For more, see Office 2010 beta goes public on CNET News.com. Office 2010 beta is now... [19 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment With the advent and popularity of cloud computing, software as a service such as Salesforce.com applications, managed datacentres and other services with ongoing costs, the impact to the expense side of IT is increasing... [19 Nov 2009]
Photos: Nokia debuts full-Qwerty E72 business smartphone
Photo Not every smartphone has a touchscreen - as Nokia's latest device shows. The E72, pictured above, is the latest addition to Nokia's business-focused Eseries line-up. The device, launched today, will initially only be available through... [18 Nov 2009]
